Top 50 Susan May Warren Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Don’t for a minute think that God has forgotten about you or doesn’t have your back. And don’t base God’s love or desire to help you on your opinion of yourself. Base it on who God says He is.”

— Susan May Warren

2. “It’s not about how you feel. It’s about what you do.”

— Susan May Warren

3. “But suffering can either destroy you or it can save you. Because without suffering, we don’t need more; we have enough. But when we suffer, we can’t help but reach out. It forces us into God’s arms, and that’s where we find not only what we need, but more than we can imagine. We find Him.”

— Susan May Warren

4. “But you don’t have to change the world to earn the applause of heaven.”

— Susan May Warren

5. “How about this – let’s not let our past determine whether God loves us or not. He does. And we’ll never get it right without him.”

— Susan May Warren

6. “I’m saying that storms happen – cancer happens. Accidents happen. We can either run from them, hide from them, or... go through them. God is with us in all of those situations. But yeah, some of his best people are pressed out, shaken, fermented... aged through circumstances or time.”

— Susan May Warren

7. “We look at our own problems, and we say... why? Maybe we should look at our blessings and ask the same thing.”

— Susan May Warren

8. “You’re enough, and you’re loved because God says so. Nothing else.”

— Susan May Warren

9. “I know that God loves you. And that He’s not interested in obeying your plans. He’s interested in giving you the best. And all you need to do is believe that. When you know God loves you, then faith is simply the expectation that God will show up, that love in hand.”

— Susan May Warren

10. “The question isn’t who causes something to happen, but rather, whether you see the outcome with His eyes or yours. Whether or not you trust He’s got it all in His hands.”

— Susan May Warren

11. “And I can also believe that God hasn’t abandoned me just because my life blew up. Feelings aren’t facts. The truth is that God loves me. And is up to something good in my life. Something you pointed out to me just a few weeks ago, bro.”

— Susan May Warren

12. “Jeremy had a mysterious, breath-taking allure about him, the feel of autumn, like riding down a leaf-strewn road, churning up the fragrance of tomorrow in her wake. Yes, Jeremy was a dangerous mix of something sweetly familiar and the enticing scent of change.”

— Susan May Warren

13. “If you love someone, you don’t act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they’re the most important person in the world to you.”

— Susan May Warren

14. “The Lord of my life, who calls me to be brave and walk into the unknown, amazing future. I am always awed by the wonder of you.”

— Susan May Warren

15. “You’re just mad because God didn’t answer your prayer the way you wanted him to.”

— Susan May Warren

16. “Ford, you seem to think it’s your job to save everyone. When did God step off the throne and put you in charge? Last time I looked, you were not the Savior of the world.”

— Susan May Warren

17. “So you made some bad choices. Some of God’s best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God’s best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans.”

— Susan May Warren

18. “I’m not wicked.” “Jensen, you’ve spent three years lying low, trying to make everything right. But you can’t redeem yourself. You can’t make yourself and your life whole again. God can.”

— Susan May Warren

19. “The man had all the warmth, all the friendliness, of a pinecone.”

— Susan May Warren

20. “You’re treating your relationship with God like a fling. As it means nothing to Him and nothing to you. As if you can walk away from each other. But God doesn’t operate that way.”

— Susan May Warren

21. “I know you feel decimated, but don’t let your circumstances tell you who God is. Let who God is tell you how to deal with your circumstances.”

— Susan May Warren

22. “That’s the Marshall men – they don’t know the word for slow down, be careful, stop and think... you know, prudence.”

— Susan May Warren

23. “God will show up even when we’ve made a mess of things. Even when it’s out fault – He will show up because that’s Who He is.”

— Susan May Warren

24. “Maybe if we saw love more in each other, it might be easier to look up and accept it from God.”

— Susan May Warren

25. “We love, simply because we’re loved. God’s love comes first, and ours is just a response. We didn’t trigger it – He did.”

— Susan May Warren

26. “When all else is done, God is enough, everything, and always.”

— Susan May Warren

27. “You know enough of me to believe me when I say I am not going anywhere. Not without you. You stay, I stay. You’re not a fling, Amelia. For me, you are the reason to stop running.”

— Susan May Warren

28. “When your heart’s desire is the will of the Lord above everything else, then life loses its threat because His love will carry us through every situation.”

— Susan May Warren

29. “You have to believe that no matter what happens, you’re going to be okay. That God’s grace is enough.”

— Susan May Warren

30. “We are Marshalls. We are not alone.”

— Susan May Warren

31. “It’s never a bad thing to have only God to turn to.”

— Susan May Warren

32. “God’s only concern is what you do with the life you’ve been given.”

— Susan May Warren

33. “Love gives us power, makes us risk everything we have, everything we are. Love is not for the weak. It’s for the strong.”

— Susan May Warren

34. “The amazing, whole, overwhelming, abundant life is found, oddly, by letting go. By living a dangerous faith – the kind of faith that believes in a God who knows our hearts and loves us enough to take our breath away.”

— Susan May Warren

35. “Maybe that was the key-just because she’d made a mistake with her life didn’t mean that God did, and it hopefully didn’t change the way God saw her.”

— Susan May Warren

36. “We expect God’s love to be all nice and neatly packaged. But He’ll do what He has to in order to draw us to that place where we need Him. Know Him. Are overwhelmed by His lover for us.”

— Susan May Warren

37. “For a second she saw the brother she’d known better than herself. Proud, strong, faithful, determined, and yes, just reckless enough to save them all.”

— Susan May Warren

38. “I’ve married a man who is so afraid of living, he’d rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.”

— Susan May Warren

39. “But what if God wasn’t behind us, but in front of us, in front of our dreams... making a way for them not because we deserve it... but because He just delights in us?”

— Susan May Warren

40. “God’s love is not cautious, not wise, not sensible, and not remotely conservative. In fact, loving another person the way God loves them is the greatest adventure we can have.”

— Susan May Warren

41. “She couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe, with the sense of his gaze reaching in, taking ahold of the shaking inside. He’d always had that power – the crazy calm aura that seemed to suggest, given the chance, he could tame the world. Make the elements surrender, smooth out the rough edges of a mountain, and even teach the sky to call his name. Fearless. Confident.”

— Susan May Warren

42. “Suffering can either destroy you or it can save you. Because without suffering, we don’t need more; we have enough. But when we suffer, we can’t help but reach out.”

— Susan May Warren

43. “You got in over your head. That happens. You have to learn when to call for help. That’s when you are strong.”

— Susan May Warren

44. “You don’t need to do anything to be loved by the right people.”

— Susan May Warren

45. “That’s what love does. It doesn’t stop to consider the cost. It just... acts. Puts itself out there.”

— Susan May Warren

46. “Because love doesn’t stop just because you run. Love keeps reaching out. Keeps believing, even when it feels impossible.”

— Susan May Warren

47. “Forgiveness is the currency of heaven.”

— Susan May Warren

48. “Forgiveness has no limit. There’s an endless supply.”

— Susan May Warren

49. “Just make sure that you fight the battle God has given you, and not one of your own making.”

— Susan May Warren

50. “Yep. Be. Believe. Hold on. Stand. Our best hope in the middle of confusion and chaos is not to try and solve our problems ourselves but to simply remember whose we are and who we hope in. You stay rooted in the middle of a storm – darkness, confusion, chaos – by putting your focus on the One who is stronger than the storm.”

— Susan May Warren